Improving College Student Outcomes with Course Policies that Support Autonomy In today’s post, I want to share a cool, relatively new paper by Simon
Cullen and Daniel Oppenheimer from Science Advances (1). The paper is
titled, Choosing to Learn: The Importance of Student Autonomy in Higher
Education. The methodology is …
https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2024/11/14

Tution fees set to rise to £9,535 a year Find out what it really means for you.
https://www.savethestudent.org..../news/tution-fees-in

Digest #177: Podcast Episodes for Parents and Educators I have been following Brown University Professor and Economist Emily Oster
for a number of years, basically ever since I started my journey of
becoming a parent. Now, I listen to her podcast and read her newsletters
(and the newsletters from the endocrinologist on her team, called “Hot
Flash”) to hear from Emily and experts on data-driven parenting. I also …
https://www.learningscientists.....org/blog/2024/11/1/

GUEST POST: Can Gamified Technology Be Used to Enhance Students’ Intrinsic Motivation? Technology is increasingly transforming the way students engage with
learning materials. One prominent use of technology in education is
gamification, where game-like elements are applied to non-game environments
to enhance engagement and motivation...
https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2024/10/24

Spacing and Retrieval Practice in Health Professions In this review the Trumble and colleagues sought to better understand how
spacing and retrieval practice are used in health professions education and
whether these strategies led to improvements in academic grades.
https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2024/10/16